Show scouts to celebrate anniversary with varied programs the nations cubs boy scouts and their leaders will celebrate the soth both anniversary of the incorporation of the boy scouts of america in a weeks observance servance beginning thursday february 8 Q roy oy scout week is the most important week in the boy scout calendar and nine malion present and former scouts and leaders willjo will join inthe the celebration which this yf year ar has as its theme scouting Scout ng the american way the scout program with wilh its patrol method and other group action features is a school for citizenship since scouting Scout ng provides for democratic group decisions and group action the celebrations brat ions throughout the nation will be greatly varied each troop will celebrate the birthday anniversary in accordance with its own plans i radio will play an important roll in the boy scout week celebrations brat ions linking together if only for a short time the scouts in the great rural areas with those in the cities and towns the high point of the weeks observance will be a nationwide nation wide broadcast from the white house thursday evening february 8 in which president roosevelt as honorary president of the movement and himself an active scout leader will talk to his fellow scouts and shouters as well as the millions of friends of scouting A feature of the white house broadcast will be the annual rededication by the nations scouts to the scout oath which is the guiding principle of scouting at the conclusion of his address president roosevelt will ask the scouts listening in every part of the nation as well as in all of its to take the scout 4 J th or promise led by dr james T 8 west chief scout executive and editor of boys life who will be cut into the broadcast from miami florida sunday february 11 w will b be scout reverence day Q and in thousands of churches of every denomination there will be scouts attending special services more than half of the nations cub packs boy scout troops and senior scout groups are sponsored by the churches and synagogues of america scouts of jewish faith will hold their special services friday evening february 91 9 and saturday special emphasis will be placed upon the twelfth point rf of the scout law which reads A scout reverent he is reverent to ird d god ile he is faithful in his religious duties and respects the convictions of others in matters of custom and religion hundreds of troops and cub packs will have special parents night meetings in which the parents will be participants in some of the activities other troops will have their meeting during boy scout week set aside f for or troop reunions with f former ormer members returning to renew acquaint I 1 ances and for an evening of fun |